Ellery Akers's latest collection of poems is Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance, which won BookAuthority's Award for Best Environmentalism Books of All Time. She is also the author of two previous poetry collections, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth, and has won multiple awards, including the Poetry International Prize and an IPPY Award. She lives in Northern California and teaches private poetry workshops.

Other poems by Ellery Akers in Verse Daily:
May 20, 2015:   "Breathing" "I love to feel as if, I'm just another body, a breather along with the others..."

Books by Ellery Akers:

Other poems on the web by Ellery Akers:
Two poems
Five poems
"At Any Moment, There Could Be a Swerve in a Different Direction"
"Fifteen Strokes Of Luck"
"Apologize to the Leaves"
"Mud Lake"
"What I Know"

Ellery Akers's Website.